FRANCIS WEST OF DUXBURY MA. PART 2

 At one point my ancestor Francis West owned a considerable amount of lnd in Duxbury, Ma. I foumd these transcriptions of land records in the Googlebook Copy of the Old Records of the Town of Duxbury, Mas: From 1642 to 1770. Made in the Year 1892:

Aug. 4,  1642  Vol. a.  Page 196.    
 Memorandum that Richard Beasc, of Duxbery, . planter, has sold unto Francis West, of Duxbery, carpenter, my lot of land, containing forty acres, together with the housing thereon builded, with all appurtenances there unto belonging, lying on the south side of the Mill brook, in consideration whereof the said Francis West is to pay the sum of eighteen pounds. In witness thereof I have set my hand, this the day and year above mentioned.
  The mark of _____RICHARD BEASE,
Transcribed this 23d of Jan'y, 1667.
William PABODIE, Clerk
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1661. May 27  Vol. a.Page 197
William Ford Sen. and his wife Ann, acknowledge the sale of their land lying in the township of Dux-bury, both upland and meadow land, unto Francis West and his heirs forever. Before me this 27th day of May, 1661.
               JOHN ALDEN, Assistant.
Transcribed this 23d of January, 1667.
WILLIAM PABODIE, T. C
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1670 Oct. 10.  Vol. a.   Page 216   
The town have given unto Francis West, about  thirty acres of land on the East side of Experience Mitchils lands near Namassakeesit, of the same . breadth with the said Mitchels his land, and soéstending Eastward to a marked tree near a little run in a swamp, about sixty rods distant from Mitchels land, the tree marked is a inaple trec.
 WILLIAM PABODIE, T. C.
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 Copy of the Old Records of the Town of Duxbury, Mas: From 1642 to 1770. Made in the Year 1892,
Avery & Doten, Book and Job Printers, 1893 - Duxbury (Mass.)

For all that, Francis died with an estate valued only at 16 pounds. That went to his son Peter, my 7x great grandfather.
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FRANCIS WEST OF DUXBURY MA. PART 1

 I am going to try to get as far as I can blogging about my West line before the year runs out. So for the moment I'm going to set aside the questions about  a possible relationship with English nobility or Wests in the Virginia colony. I will start with this brief biography by William Richard Cutter of my immigrant ancestor, Francis West of Duxbury, Ma., my 8x great grandfather:

...He is spoken of as a carpenter in the Duxbury records, and the Plymouth colony records show that he made a pair of stocks for the town of Duxbury in 1640. In 1640 and 1642 he was a menber of the grand jury; in 1642 he purchased a house and land in Duxbury (Millbrook); in 1643 he was on the list of those able to bear arms; he was admitted a freeman in Plymouth colony in 1656; in 1658 he was a surveyor of highways in Duxbury; constable in 1661; and in 1662-69-74-78-80-81 he was a member of the "Grand Conquest" During the last years of his life his son Peter took care of him, and his estate, which amounted to only siateen pounds, was given to Peter by the probate court. He married, in Duxbury, February 27, 1639, Margaret Reeves , and died there January 2, 1692, ages eighty-six years. Children, probably born in Duxbury: Samuel, 1843; Dr. Thomas, 1646; Peter; Mary; Ruth, 1651  married Nathaniel Skiff and died December 31, 1741, aged ninety years.-p2036

1New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 4  Lewis historical publishing Company,  New York 1914 ,

Here's my line of descent from Francis to my Dad: